Essays on the Context, Nature, and Influence of Isaac Newton's Theology
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
by James E. Force, Richard H. Popkin.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Dordrecht
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer Netherlands
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1990
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(240 pages).
SERIES
Series Title
Archives Internationales D'Histoire Des Idées/International Archives of the History of Ideas, 129.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
1. Some Further Comments on Newton and Maimonides --;2. The Crisis of Polytheism and the Answers of Vossius, Cudworth, and Newton --;3. Polytheism, Deism, and Newton --;4. The Newtonians and Deism --;5. Newton's God of Dominion: The Unity of Newton's Theological, Scientific, and Political Thought --;6. Newton as a Bible Scholar --;7. Sir Isaac Newton, 'Gentleman of Wide Swallow'?: Newton and the Latitudinarians --;8. The Breakdown of the Newtonian Synthesis of Science and Religion: Hume, Newton, and the Royal Society --;9. Newton and Fundamentalism, II --;10. Hume's Interest in Newton and Science.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
) Force told me about the amazing views he had found in Whiston's notes on Josephus and in some of the few writings he could find in St. Louis by, or about, Whiston, who was Newton's successor as Lucasian Professor of mathematics at Cambridge and who wrote inordinately on Millenarian theology.